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Viewpoint: Appeasing the latter — day robber barons
Inflation has created a major crisis for local authorities. Hence there is a further outcry for the reform of Britain's antiquated rating system. Various proposals are being…
Training needs in social work
This article sets out the leading points in Paper 5 published by the Central Council for Education & Training in Social Work: Social Work: People with handicaps need better…
Methods of study: a cost comparison
Lyndon Jones, A. WylieThe tertiary sector of education is having to learn to live in a cold economic climate. And confronted with a severe financial squeeze, methods of reducing expenditure must be…
TEC and the Tech
A.G. PearceThis article, contrived last Autumn, is composed entirely of my own prognostications. Although I have since discovered myself a member of two TEC Committees, these had not yet met…
E & T for the physically handicapped at Hereward College
Peter LoweHereward College was established with national support from the DES and Local Education Authorities, and opened to students from all parts of the country in September, 1971. The…
Careers:: TRAINING
John MurrayThe Department of Business and Management Studies at Havering Technical College believes that running courses in distributive subjects is competitive. This helps to explain why in…
Careers:: SELECTION
A former HMI in business studies calls for a closer working relationship between careers advisers and further education colleges
Distribution
David ShortEverybody knows something about shopping, but unless one is closely connected with distribution the sheer size and complexity of the industry—and its range of opportunities—is not…
Ravenswood: a community for the mentally handicapped
Stanley SegalRavenswood resulted from the initiative of a handful of parents in the early 1950s. Around it, in the increasingly ‘humane social climate’ of the 1950s and 1960s, there grew up a…
E & T for the physically disabled at St. Loye's
J.F. OBE ParsonsA great many disabled people are out of work not because they are disabled, but because they have received no formal training. The key to success in training disabled people is to…
Getting the message across
William Walsh, ACIS MISMNo one needs help to get into trouble At the beginning of 1975 that is a quotation to be remembered by people as far apart as ex‐President Nixon, ex‐Lord Mayor of London Sir…
Topics
Even if you don't know what you're doing you're still entitled to do it. The National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children has published Sexual rights of the retarded (15p…
Manpower Services Commission — The first year
Roy HelmoreThe Manpower Services Commission has now been operating for just over a year. In that time it has assumed responsibility for the employment and training services previously…
Integration is a further handicap
James LoringThe education and training of ordinary children is a problem field, but as regards handicapped children it is a field of particular difficulty. This country has a system of…
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